xebialabs-community / xld-chef-plugin

The community version is no longer updated, latest supported version for the plugin is available at https://github.com/xebialabs/xld-chef-plugin

Preface

This document describes the functionality provided by the XLD Chef plugin.

See the XL Deploy Reference Manual for background information on XL Deploy and deployment concepts.

Overview

The XLD Chef plugin is a XL Deploy plugin that adds capability for rolling out Chef recipies on an overthere.Host.

Requirements

• Requirements
  • XL Deploy 4.5.0
  • Chef

Installation

Place the plugin JAR file into your SERVER_HOME/plugins directory.

Usage

1. Go to Repository - Infrastructure, create a new overthere.Host.
2. Create an environment under Repository - Environments
3. Create an application with chef.Cookbook as deployable.
4. Start deploying

NOTE: To Use dicitionary substitution with this plugin in the Chef manifest files you will need to update the conf/deployit-defaults.properties file by adding two lines as follows:

udm.BaseDeployableArchiveArtifact.scanPlaceholders=true udm.BaseDeployableArchiveArtifact.textFileNamesRegex=.+\.(cfg | conf | config | ini | properties | props | txt | rb)

Windows

In order to deploy a chef.Cookbook to a Windows host, TarTool is required to be installed on the target and available on the default PATH. TarTool can be downloaded from https://tartool.codeplex.com